Organic matter decomposition is a biochemical process with consequences affecting climate
change and ecosystem productivity. Once decomposition begins, C is lost as CO 2 or …

Soil contains approximately 2344Gt (1 gigaton= 1 billion tonnes) of organic carbon globally
and is the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon. Small changes in the soil organic carbon …

The terrestrial carbon (C) cycle has received increasing interest over the past few decades,
however, there is still a lack of understanding of the fate of newly assimilated C allocated …

The role of savannas during the course of early human evolution has been debated for
nearly a century, in part because of difficulties in characterizing local ecosystems from fossil …

Soils can be sources or sinks of carbon depending on the balance between carbon inputs
from plants and losses from the decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM). A good …

A major challenge facing agriculture in the 21st century is the need to increase the
productivity of cultivated land while reducing the environmentally harmful consequences of …

While most models describing soil organic matter dynamics relate the turnover of soil
organic matter to its chemical structure, there is increasing evidence that microbial …

We identified the role of various soil parameters and root density as drivers of soil respiration
(R s) in an apple orchard, measured during different periods of the year and at a range of …

Backgrounds A large-scale ecological restoration project was initiated in the 1990s in
southwest China, which is one of the largest areas of rocky desertification globally. However …

Modelling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from tropical peatlands is of crucial importance
in determining GHG emission rates under global change. Modelling efforts to date have …